Is grammar important in communication?

[Altotox]

Hello everyteacher ( i assume all of you are teacher for me)
I want to ask you about the importance of grammar. Some people said that grammar is not to important in daily conversation especially for the english learner that isn't good in grammar . Do you agree with this?
Thanks for your respond

[Jamie (K)]

Grammar is important, because bad grammar can make communication impossible sometimes. If you look on this forum, you'll see that sometimes someone writes a question that is in such bad grammar that we can't understand it.

[Iwanna]

In a real conversation, we hardly have opportunity to take care of the grammatical rules, we totally forget them. But grammar is extremely important for a foreign language learner, it helps study the language much more effectively. It is very helpful mainly in the process of learning, not during a real conversation. For me, it is a powerful tool of studying a language, not a practical skill of using this language.

[Jamie (K)]

Grammar is important during a real conversation also. However, at that speed, you can't think about textbook rules. You need to have practiced enough that the grammar rules operate subconsciously and produce something close to correct speech. And in a real conversation it is also possible to be unintelligible due to bad grammar.

[Otmane Omari]

In fact, garammar is very important in communication, because it is an aspect of the language. The problem is that a speaker of english as a foriegner language think that grammar rules in communication is a must. However, for a speaker of the same language as a mother tongue gives no important to grammar rules because he/she learnt it by heart from his childhood.
In other words, both speakers of english use the english grammar but the difference between them is that the first speaker gives more importnace to grammar because it is a foreign language for him/her. On the contrary, the second speaker gives less importance to grammar because it is the official language and he/she practice it from the beginning of his/her speaking.

[Happytofita]

Hello,

As far as poetry is concerned, and to the best of my knowledge, I think poets do not care much about grammar. You can always find appalling grammar mistakes and typos while reading poems. Of course those sophisticates recognize the mistakes, but they do not correct them, because that's how their bodies respond to their thoughts as they say.

[Happytofita]

Hello,

I just want to remind you guys that there is The Descriptive Grammar and The Prescriptive Grammar. The first one looks at the way a language is actually used by the speakers, whereas the second one deals with what grammarians believe to be right or wrong. In other words, how a language should be used.

Take care,

Mouhcine

[Otmane Omari]

I want also to mention that there is a formal conversation and an informal one. As you know there is a big difference between both of them.
in the first one (formal) the use of grammar rules is very important; however, using correct grammar in the second one (informal) is not as the same important as the first one.

Thank you.